In a first, OpenAI removes influence ops ‘targeting’ Indian elections, BJP

In a first, OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – said it disrupted a covert influence campaign originating in Israel that used its models to generate pro-Congress and anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) content and spread those online in a bid to disrupt the ongoing election process.

OpenAI said that in May, this network used its AI models to generate “large quantities of short comments that were then posted across Telegram, X, Instagram and other sites”.

As per a report released by the company on Thursday, a commercial company in Israel called ‘STOIC,’ which was generating content about the Gaza conflict, and to a lesser extent the Histadrut trade unions organisation in Israel and the Indian elections. The company said it had nicknamed the operation as “Zero Zeno”.